Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills. Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate connectives in their writing, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Defining connectives types; - Identifying connectives in humorous writing examples; - Analysing connectives in an interesting descriptive passage; - Creating a descriptive piece, using varied connectives; - Peer or self evaluating their writing attempts, and in particular the use of connectives Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided. This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.

This colourful and clear resources shows students sentence openers, challenging vocabulary, punctuation and connectives that could be used in their writing. This is very helpful across curriculum for both creative writing and non fiction writing. When printed in colour and laminated the edges can be scored with scissors so that they bend into a pyramid shape. The tab can then be stapled / sellotaped closed.

A 14-slide presentation illustrating how to use VCOP (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation) in your classroom to enhance learning.

A collection of ideas to develop use of Ros Wilson VCOP (vocabulary, connectives, sentence openers and connectives) collated from TES primary thread. Topics also included: word work; sentence structure and punctuation.

These worksheets help children to extend their sentences by using connectives, using a variety of sentence openers, using adjectives and writing an adverbial phrase.

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Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation, Up Level and Dictionary work. Each of the six areas has 30 to 40 activities that should work well as a carousel keeping children busy during group reading. Based on a few other things I've seen and downloaded. I have simply changed the format, re-vamped the graphics, developed the idea and added to them. Hope it saves someone some work.

72 starters- one starter per slide. Or can be used for literacy intervention lessons. Easy to read, clear font and design. Suit KS2, KS3 and KS4. All starters are for English and Literacy. Starters focus mostly on: SPAG, VCOP, word classes and devices. Print slides for lower ability to work on or ask them to choose 3 questions only from the ones given.

6 VCOP based worksheets all using the theme of 'Fish' The worksheets consist of the following: A detailed reading comprehension A 'choose the correct spelling' activity (with answers for self-marking) A cloze procedure activity (with answers) Dictionary and thesaurus work on the vocabulary used in the topic A punctuation activity (with answers) A final comprehension activity - use the facts covered to produce a 'fact file' of top 10 facts from the topic

Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills. Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate vocabulary, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Defining word types; - Identifying varied vocabulary in humorous writing examples; - Analysing varied vocabulary in an interesting descriptive passage; - Creating their descriptive piece, using varied vocabulary; - Peer or self evaluating their varied vocabulary attempts. Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided. This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.

Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills. Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate sentence openers, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Defining the different words that they can use to vary how they open sentences; - Identifying varied openers in humorous writing examples; - Analysing varied openings in an interesting descriptive passage; - Creating a descriptive piece, using varied sentence openers; - Peer or self evaluating the effectiveness of their varied sentence openers. Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided. This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.

Time-saving, interactive resources for introducing children to VCOP.

Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills. Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate punctuation, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Defining punctuation marks; - Identifying varied vocabulary in humorous writing examples; - Analysing varied vocabulary in an interesting descriptive passage; - Creating their descriptive piece, using varied vocabulary; - Peer or self evaluating their varied vocabulary attempts. Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided. This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.

VCOP PPT explaination for staff or students

resource to support VCOP during writing

The letters VCOP, what each letter stands for, conjunctions, excellent openers and vocabulary ready to print and display in your classroom.

Here is a VCOP mat I created for mu children to help support their sentence structure. (No rights owned - Not included in price)

This is an excellent resource for pupils to record examples of Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Use for reading tasks, homework or fast finishers. This is a flexible resource that will suit a range of learners. Includes both Microsoft Word and PDF versions.

2 worksheet to introduce using various interesting sentence openers in writing. Useful for targeting pupils with a writing target of upleveling openers in their writing. Second sheet focused on time openers specifically. Good for a lesson before structuring in a story.

Sentences for pupils to improve to practise using more interesting VCOP, in particular punctuation. Great for focusing on individual writing targets relating to using more interesting/advanced punctuation. Also teaches pupils how to improve and edit their writing as they write.